Updated as on June 01, 2020 . The CAT 2020 shall be conducted by IIM Indore, official notification will be released around last week of July 2020 and Registration is expected to begin in 1 st week of Aug 2020. Generally Cat Exam is held in 3 rd /4 th week of Nov but due to Covid 19 pandemic, this year the exam is supposed to be held in 2st week of Dec 2020 tentatively. (Last year CAT 2019 was held by IIM Kozhikode and the dates were released on July 28 th 2019 and the test was conducted on Nov 24th.)

More than 2 Lac candidates appear in CAT exam every year. Last year 2.41 Lacs candidates had registered and applied for CAT while 2.09 Lac sat in exam.

Eligibility for CAT 2020 : If you have completed Bachelor's degree with 50% marks or completed professional degree (CA/CS/ICWA), or are in the final year of Bachelor's degree you can appear in CAT exam. There is no Age bar to apply and appear for CAT exam.

CAT 2020 Exam Pattern : 180 Minutes duration CAT exam will be a computer delivered test will have 100 questions divided in 3 sections of VARC, DILR and Quantitative Ability. 25% No Penalty Questions: Out of 100 questions in CAT 2019, more than 25 questions will not have negative marking. CAT 2019 is divided into MCQ and Non-MCQ type of questions will not carry negative marking. In case any non-MCQ has negative marking, a few MCQs may be changed to no negative marking questions.

CAT Year & Number of Questions

VA

DI-LR

Quant

CAT Exam 2019

VARC-34. RC-24, (All MCQs), Verbal-10 (non MCQs)

DILR-32, DI-16, LR-16, MCQs-24, Non-MCQs-8

Total-34. MCQs 23, Non-MCQs-11

Reservation : As per the legal requirements, 15% of the seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates, 7.5% for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates, 27% for Other Backward Classes candidates belonging to the “Non-Creamy” layer (NC-OBC), up to 10% for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) candidates and 5% for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwD).